Just installed fedora to replace windows 10. I’ve used mint and ubuntu as a general purpose os in the past but it’s been a few years and I was never a power user, just learned what I needed as I went.
I remember it being important to use timeshift to safeguard against breaking something with updates, but it seems like timeshift doesn’t work on fedora. Rather, you can get it to work on fedora but it’s not supported. The thing that is confusing me is, searching for a way to do snapshots on fedora, I haven’t really found what I expected? There’s nothing I can see in software or flathub, timeshift or the alternatives mentioned on forums. I’m think I’m going to proceed with figuring out snapper using btrfs assistant as a gui…
But, given that I remember timeshift being basically recommended all the time to everyone when I used to use linux, I can’t find anyone all that interested in using snapshots with fedora. Is it not necessary with fedora? Does fedora somehow handle that already? I can make do with the information I can find, but I’m wondering why there is so little information about it at all. I can’t really find anything that suggests it’s important to make snapshots. Or maybe I’m just looking in the wrong places? Can someone help me understand this better?
Idk, but my install offers a version rollback at the bootloader. Had a weird graphics issue after an update, so I just used an older version for a week or so till a new update fixed it.
thanks, i think this is the intended way of dealing with rollback. i did end up using btrfs assistant to use snapper to take snapshots. probably overkill but honestly most of my fiddling is just to see what i learn doing it, because i’m really not very knowledgeable about linux. i’m hoping if i fiddle with things enough i’ll get some background knowledge which will eventually turn into a more intuitive understanding lol
Well, I’m not entirely clear on what snapshots are so you’re doing better than me and I haven’t been on windows in a few years now lol!
what i have learned: it seems like the options in the bootloader are for restoring just the kernel, in case a kernel update breaks something. snapshots (timeshift is the program/gui that seems to come included with at least mint and ubuntu) save backups of all your system files, so you can roll back if some other update messes something up, or if you personally break something while messing around with your configuration.
What filesystem is being used?
The default on Fedora is btrfs, which sounds like what OP is using.
